The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood.

"It's a politically loaded issue," Dr. King said.

It involved too many loaded issues, too many symbols, too many players.

Ms. Moss, the onetime poster girl for loaded issues like eating disorders and heroin chic, has become domesticated as a new mother and part-time artist's muse.

Of course, frivolous lawsuits are a loaded issue in New Jersey, with doctors, lawyers and insurance companies all pointing fingers at each other.

Sometimes when McQueen deals with loaded issues, like religious wars, class struggles or poverty and starvation, as he has in the past, he gets people hot and bothered.

An Ardsley gynecologist, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was "avoiding a loaded issue."

Perhaps the single most contentious ergonomic issue in motorcycling - and definitely the most loaded gender-based issue - is seat height.

For instance, the commission suggested that Japan should remove barriers on its rice market, a politically loaded issue.